I have not been encouraged by the amount of abuse and vilification towards the learned professor, now the country’s Deputy Prime Minister.It is unfortunate that people have a short or selective memory of the history of the Third Chimurenga in Zimbabwe. For the record, the history of democratic…

The first  was  to assist  in the stabilisation  of our economy  which had  all but collapsed with the new government  having to ensure availability of jobs,  food  and other basic necessities of life.   The second purpose was to normalise the political situation that had been characterised by serious…

It said a lot. Here was a man who should have been mourning his wife who had been buried three days before at his rural home in Buhera, attending a State funeral in honour of someone who had bluntly told him that he would never salute him. How…

Tensions started building up at the beginning of February when  Andry Rajoelina, the mayor of the capital, Antananarivo, accused the head of state of  dictatorship and corruption and challenged him to resign. What followed was a period of uncertainty and confusion  during which supporters of Rajoelina and Ravalomanana…

Obama has based his stimulus package on a three legged stool, the stimulus, a fair tax code and reining in the financial institutions. Our interest in the matter is whether a developing country can use similar methods to stimulate their economies. First comes the supervision of the major…

One friend whom I met along Samora Machel Avenue in Harare commented about my contribution and he said, “Vote,  since when did  you start discussing economics?”  I,  to some  extent, agreed with him. I joked and said to him  I did not want to engage  in a serious…

The state daily, The Herald had a good example of this in its issue on Monday when it published a story headed: “No free cellphones, stands for councillors”. In the report, Local Government, Rural and Urban Development Minister Ignatius Chombo is quoted breathing fire against the awarding of…

I have been amazed by the outpouring of sympathy and support shown towards Cameron and his wife not just by ordinary Britons but by his colleagues from the world of politics and government.When I read that British Prime Minister Gordon Brown had sent the opposition leader a message…

Mavis MakuniOwn correspondentInternational television channels have shown extraordinary scenes in Sudan since the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued a warrant for the arrest of the country’s president, Hassan Omar al-Bashir.The head of state, who  is accused of  war crimes and crimes against humanity arising from the conflict in…

It is unfortunate that after providing the shoulder on which the Prime Minister leaned on for the past 31 years, of which the last 10 years were the most difficult for the couple, Susan could not live to see the fruits of their struggle to enhance democratic space…